The brothers spent the whole morning cutting pigweed, and the sun set at noon, so they returned home with their arms in their arms. When they got home, they chopped the pigweed into pieces with a guillotine, and then mixed it with some dried sweet potatoes. This was considered a good meal.

Generally, when the pigs are about to be slaughtered, they will be fed with concentrate for one and a half to two months. The so-called concentrate refers to bean dregs, corn, etc. As for the feed, don't even think about it.

These days, Fang Yuan can only drink dried white taro porridge every day. How much better can the pigs want to eat? When the pigs are fattened, half of them will have to be sold to the purchasing station. People in the city eat meat, except for the official breeding farms.

, relying on collecting pigs from farmers one by one.

There are only two pigs in the Fang family's pig pen, and they can't feed any more. It's not an easy job to get rid of the pig weed every day. If there are too many pigs, the pig weed won't be able to get through it, and it will delay the time to go to the production team.

If you can't earn work points, you will only lose more money.

After feeding the pigs with grass, Fang Yuan and Fang Wen still had to clean up the pig manure. Manure is a good thing these days. Cow manure can be burned, and pig manure can also be used as fertilizer. It is really a treasure. No one is willing to throw it away. Their own pig manure is

It needs to be cleaned and collected regularly so that it can be used as fertilizer for the vegetables in the private plot, which will make the vegetables grow better.

All the work at home has been done, and it’s not yet time for lunch in the afternoon. There are two meals during the off-season, one in the morning around eight o’clock, and one in the afternoon between two and two-thirty in the afternoon. The meal is late.

You get hungry later at night. As long as you go to sleep before you get hungry, it won't be that hard. Of course, Fang Yuan is actually woken up by hunger every time. The so-called eating late and being hungry late is just to comfort himself.

While there was still time, Fang Yuan picked up the shovel and went out. When Fang Wen saw this, his eyes instantly lit up. He quickly followed with the shovel and carried a small bucket, knowing that the fourth brother was going to dig up earthworms.

They found a shady spot and started digging for earthworms. It had just rained and the earthworms came out to dig in the mud. It was the best time to dig. When you put the hoe down, you could pull out several earthworms from a piece of mud. The best ones were the big ones.

Wear a scarf. Earthworms wearing a scarf have a strong smell and are more likely to attract eels.

In fact, the so-called snood is the reproductive belt, or ovary, of the earthworm. When it matures, it will fall off on its own, and the eggs will hatch into small earthworms again in the soil.

The dug earthworms and mud were chopped into pieces. The fishy smell made people want to vomit, but it was a good bait for catching eels. Yesterday, I made a dozen more eel cages. Including the previous ones, there were more than forty in total.

Cage, so you need to prepare more earthworm paste.

After digging out the earthworms, the brothers dug out a handful of stinky mud. This stinky mud should be the blackest and smelliest, preferably one that has been beaten with wheat straw poles. This is enough. After everything was done, Fang Yuan called Lao Liuchai

Go home and chop up earthworms.

Back home, Fang Yuan first chopped up the earthworms with a guillotine. This had to be done with the guillotine used to chop pigweed at home. If he used a kitchen knife, he couldn't use a kitchen knife. The guillotine at home was similar to the guillotine used by Bao Qingtian.

However, the blade does not have such a thick edge, nor does it have a dragon head, a tiger head, or a dog head. It is usually used to cut grass and feed the livestock at home.

Mix the good earthworms with the smelly mud, and the smell is very strong, then apply it on the plastic sheet, and then seal it with a rope on the exit of the eel cage. This is considered a living thing. You can put the cage into the ditch at night.

Already.

Finally, it was time to eat the afternoon meal. There was definitely no white rice, and more people in Jianghuai ate sorghum rice.

Sorghum doesn't taste good, it has a bitter taste, but it is resistant to waterlogging, drought, and salt and alkali. Floods occur every now and then in the Jianghuai area. If you only focus on rice and wheat, you will die if there is a flood.

Therefore, the production team often weighs large amounts of sorghum as a life-saving grain.

Because sorghum is not easy to digest and it makes you less hungry when eaten, no one cares about its shortcomings in taste. In fact, its biggest function is to make wine, and sorghum wine has always been quite popular.

In addition to sorghum rice, there are also a few slices of dried white taro. The vegetables are seasonal vegetables grown at home. Tomatoes and cucumbers are arranged on a plate, and then half a plate of dried radishes is served with rice. Basically, this is all the content of the lunch meal. Wait until

It's better when farming is busy, at least you can eat sorghum rice freely.

Apart from anything else, Fang Yuan really likes to eat tomatoes from this era. The tomatoes have a very strong taste. The taste of tomatoes is not sour or sweet, but a kind of smell that cannot be said to belong only to tomatoes.

Tomatoes decades later will be both sour and sweet, but they just don’t have that flavor. Some people say that the flavor was lost in the process of tomato variety improvement for the sake of yield. Some say it was because of the increase in yield.

It grew quickly and well, but too much fertilizer was used. The fertilizer inhibited the ripening of the tomato flavor. Fang Yuan was not very clear about the specific situation.

As soon as we finished eating, Lao Liu was in a hurry to go out and get out of the eel cage. Lao Liu Fangwen dropped out of school last year. This kid was very angry and said that the school was demanding tuition fees. Dad couldn't spare the money, so let him go again.

Wait, it turned out that this boy felt embarrassed and refused to go to bed at all. Fang Yuan also knew that the sixth child didn't want to go to bed, but because his family really couldn't afford the money and didn't want to make things difficult for his family.

There are several brothers in the family. The eldest brother and the second brother did not go to school after elementary school. Most people of their generation are like this. The third sister went to high school because of her good academic performance. She graduated from junior high school, and the fifth child went to high school.

After finishing high school, due to historical reasons, I didn't take the college entrance examination and instead joined the army. The sixth child was the worst. Halfway through the first grade of elementary school, he stopped going to school because of the tuition fees. Later, his family conditions were a little better.

A little better, so the youngest Fang Yao successfully completed high school, but unfortunately her grades were far behind the entrance to college.

A family of seven children is basically all literate, which is enough to be envied these days. You have to remember that we are still in the age when children are herded like sheep. Not to mention that all of them are literate, it is quite good to be able to feed them all.

Fang Yuan wiped his mouth clean. He originally thought that he and Fang Wen could just go out and get out of the eel cage, but Su Yan looked at him eagerly. Fang Yuan understood that his wife had just been married and was still a little uncomfortable at home, so he went out by himself.

, she doesn’t know how to get along with her mother-in-law and aunt.

"Daughter-in-law, come with us and help me!" Fang Yuan said with a smile.

Su Yan nodded immediately. Fang Yuan handed the two eel cages to Su Yan, and then said to my mother, "Mom, I'm going out. I'll put down some more cages today to see if I can catch more. I'll go back and exchange money."

"Okay, go out and watch the sixth child. Don't let him get close to the ditch. The children of the old Zhao family of the former brigade were drowned not long ago when they went fishing in the ditch. There were only three children in his family. My wife was blinded by crying.

." I ordered.

"Don't worry, I won't let him run away." Fang Yuan agreed, then rubbed Fang Wen's head and said, "Did you hear what I said? If you don't listen to me, come back and ask me to deal with you."

"Fourth brother, there are so many people in the family, and I am the most obedient to you." Fang Wen immediately behaved and followed the fourth brother to eat fried dough sticks, so he must be obedient!

Fang Yuan knew very well what was going on in this kid's head, so he rolled his eyes at him angrily, and then took Su Yan out with him.

After the three of them went out, Fang Yuan took the eel cage in Su Yan's hand and said with a smile, "I'll take it. This cage stinks so much that I'll vomit you up later."

Su Yan knew that Fang Yuan felt sorry for her, and she felt sweet in her heart. Which woman wouldn't want the man she married to be a man who knows both coldness and heat. Seeing Fang Yuan take away the eel cage, Su Yan took the rope from Fang Yuan's shoulder and said

"Then let me get this for you."

Fang Wen on the side couldn't help but frown, his little eyes were full of doubts. How many ropes do you need help with? It's strange for the fourth brother and the fourth sister-in-law to hang something that can't be felt on their heads.

These days, there is no such thing as feeding dog food, and children mature late. I feel that the fourth brother and the fourth sister-in-law are too old and have brain diseases.

The best choice for setting up an eel cage is not an open river, but a narrow ditch with lush water and grass is better. Eels like shade and like to dig holes in moist bank eaves.

When Fang Yuan got off the cage, he pushed aside the water plants, then used a rope to hang the eel cage on something fixed on the shore, and pushed the cage under the water plants. If the cage was not fixed, it would have to be buried in the mud, otherwise now

It's the rainy season, and when it rains, the cage is washed away somewhere.
Chapter completed!